RELIGION AND MAN
REDEMPTION & SALVATION. Among the activities peculiar to man, religion stands out as that in which he is most conscious of his dual nature, said, the Dean of St Paul’s, the Very Rev W. R. Matthews, in a recent broadcast. In religion man attempts to get into direct contact with that unseen world which lies behind and within the visible world. Running through all religion is, on the one side, the con-, viction that man is greater than the animals: that he has touch with the eternal, that he is akin to God: and on the other side that he is somehow wrong and has grievously failed. The sacrifices which to us are often repellent hud this motive behind them —to abolish the wrong. Religion on its higher levels speaks of the need of redemption and salvation. It is not enough that man should develop the God-like powers within him. He needs Io be cleansed, io be reconciled with the unseen Power, before he can bo relieved of his pain. 1 am not discussing now whether religion is true or false. I am simply pointing out that religion recognises and expresses the tragic sense of life which must be present in all of ns when we contemplate man as he is and. man as it seems he might be.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 January 1940, Page 6
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